September 3, 2010 Mike Hamill reports by sat phone that the climbers had a good night at Interim Camp (IC) and now they are on the way to Advanced Base Camp. Everyone is doing well, the weather remains good,  and they expect to reach ABC later today. Interim Camp, as the name suggests, is only […]
August 31, 2010 Mike Hamill reports from Cho Oyu BC at about 15,500 feet that everyone is doing very well. Today the team took another acclimatization hike and the Sherpas continued to pack up yak loads and get ready to move to Advanced Base Camp (ABC). Later in the afternoon they had some rain with […]
August 30, 2010 IMG Cho Oyu team leader Mike Hamill reports by sat phone from Cho Oyu Base Camp that the team is doing well and the base camp is looking good after the Sherpas went ahead and got it established. After travelling halfway around the world the team is all looking forward to spending […]
August 28, 2010 Tingri with Cho Oyu in the background. Mike Hamill reports that the team had two good acclimatization nights in Nyalam with a nice hike yesterday. Weather is good. Today the climbers reached Tingri (over 14,000 feet) and the Sherpas continued on and have now established the Base Camp. Other than a few […]
August 27, 2010 Our IMG Cho Oyu Sirdar, Ang Passang, called at 07:30 Nepal time this morning to inform everyone is doing well and that they have now reached Nyalam (12,300 feet) where the members will spend two nights to acclimatize. Tomorrow the Sherpas will push on to Tingri, to get in position to start […]
August 25, 2010 Ang Passang called at 07:30 Nepal time this morning to inform everyone is doing well and they are on their way to Nyalam where the members will spend two nights to acclimatize. Ang Jangbu
Ang Jangbu reports that the team reached Kodari border OK this morning. They had some delay between Barabise and Kodari due to a landslide overnight but managed to get through and did not have to switch to different bus on the other side. The team had lunch in Kodari while Raju and CMA staff did […]
August 23, 2010 Ang Jangbu reports good news, we got our Chinese visas this evening. We have returned passports to the members along with a copy of visa to each member. The container truck left Kathmandu at around 1:45 pm and reached Kodari 7:30 pm. Just talked to Danuru and Raju in Kodari–they plan clear […]
August 22, 2010 Ang Jangbu reports from Kathmandu that everyone has arrived on schedule with no missing luggage, which is always great to hear. IMG guides Mike Hamill and Max Bunce are now doing gear checks with the expedition members.  We will be collecting base camp duffels tomorrow morning and the sherpas will be loading […]
May 17, 2010 IMG leader Eric Remza called on the sat phone from Camp 1 with some more information on their Cho Oyu summit climb today. The climbers left Camp 3 at 2am and reached the summit 26899 ft (8201m) at 8am. For our head sherpa, Panuru, it was his 12th ascent of Cho Oyu […]
